FG urges IT firms to improve data protection strategy
The Federal Government has urged technology service providers to do more on data protection strategy to avoid breach of Nigerians’ data. The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, said during a progarmme organised by MainOne in Lagos at the weekend. The Minister, who was represented by Director General, National Information Technology […]
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami
The Federal Government has urged technology service providers to do more on data protection strategy to avoid breach of Nigerians’ data.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, said during a progarmme organised by MainOne in Lagos at the weekend.
The Minister, who was represented by Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, said the private sector needed to come together and key into the Federal Government’s efforts at ensuring that Nigeria compete with other countries in the area of technology, especially Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), to help create jobs in the country.
Speaking on Nigeria’s data operation, Pantami explained that the Federal Government has about 90 percent of its data hosted in Nigeria, “more than 90 per cent of government data is hosted locally and we are hoping to achieve 100 per cent,’’ the Minister said.
He said hosting of national data outside Nigeria had security implications.
He urged MainOne, investors and other private companies to champion data hosting business in Africa.
The Minister further stated that Federal Government is committed to providing the needed infrastructure to make the business of data hosting a successful one, noting that data centres have a critical role to play in achieving the mandate of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.
He said MainOne deserved commendation for organising an event that brought together Technology Community in Nigeria and leading Tech-providers to discuss latest development in the industry and fine tune ways of improving the Technology Ecosystem.